Maracay City

Maracay is a Venezuelan city, capital of the municipality Atanasio Girardot and Aragua state. It is located in the central region of Venezuela, on the shores of the Cordillera de la Costa, and is located 109 km southwest of the city of Caracas. It is frequently nicknamed "the Garden City" and to a lesser extent as "the Cradle of Venezuelan Aviation" and "the Cradle of Great Toreros".
Its political-territorial denomination has suffered over the years; That is why in the pages of history we speak of Maracay as a town in the province of Caracas, then city of the province of Aragua, then part of the Guzman Blanco state, the Great State of Bolivar, and the Great State Guzman Blanco, to be definitively Capital of Aragua state. During the period of General Juan Vicente Gómez, Maracay underwent a strong urban and economic transformation. In the 1950s, an important process of industrialization took place in the city and in the 1960s there were strong movements of immigration and invasion of land.
In the year 2013 the Metropolitan Area of ​​Maracay had a population of 1,181,130 inhabitants and a nominal GDP of USD 12.059 million, corresponding to a nominal per capita of USD 12342 and a PPP per capita of 21360 $ PPP; 4 comprised by the municipalities of Girardot, Mario Briceño Iragorry, Santiago Mariño, Francisco Linares Alcantara and Libertador, being one of the five main cities of Venezuela.

It is known as the cradle of Venezuelan aviation, both civil and military. Here was born in 1929, the first airline in the country, Aeropostal, whose home airport was the Base Mariscal Sucre, the original school of the National Armed Forces. The city is a recognized industrial zone and important cultural center by its amount of museums, theaters and libraries.

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